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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KitanaVorr" data-source="post: 755789" data-attributes="member: 9167">YepIt is a faux pas definitely for Cate to ignore it and absolutely meant when I had her do that.  And you're right that the same rules don't apply to Staff vs Guests.  Yes I know Valentine did but I assumed that he got permission to do so when they spoke before the party.I was trying to emphasize the awkwardness of Cate's position at the party by doing all that.  And her continuing awkwardness afterwards at being called with such familiarity.  This is her first time at being 'on the other side' so to speak and she doesn't know how to react to the whole thing quite yet.However I do realize I'm being totally nutty about this thing and I do apologize for it.  After thinking about it some, I realize that the whole formal party thing just brought back alot of not so pleasant memories for me from my past and that probably had something to do with it.There is a dark side to a formal party and after being to endless numbers of them I will tell you that most of the time all I can think of when I'm at one is that I was going to go crazy, that I felt trapped, and I wanted to just stand in the middle of the whole thing and scream my head off.  But of course you can't, and decorum must be upheld.EDIT:And Vychtorya (the character) reminds me of my mother -the social goddess- and that sort of freaks me a little, but thats my own issues to deal with...hehe</blockquote>